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“There is no art without intention.”

Art Music Jazz Intention

Author:Duke Ellington

“Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.”

Inspirational Intention Smile Substitutes Harsh Good Intentions Her Smile Harsh Words

Author:John F. Kennedy

“God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.”

Men Space Effort Limits Intention Setting Settings Conquer Space Exploration Space Travel

Author:Pope Pius XII

“Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.”

Truth Left Intention Clarity Disadvantages Disadvantaged Advantages And Disadvantages

Author:Phyllis Bottome

“We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.”

Life Inspirational Inspiration Motivational Action Powerful Judging Management Intention Life Changing Judging Others Judging A Book By Its Cover Don't Judge Me Powerful Life Changing

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.”

Should Firsts Has Beens Ends Audience Should Have Tragedy Intention Dance Manifestation Cried Joyous Should Have Been Comprehension Sixteen Maidens Without Music

Book:My life

Source: My life

“Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.”

Earth Time Fall Forget Shapes Red Seasons Intention Forgotten Forests Autumn Fossils Drifting Graveyard

Author:Al Purdy

“Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.”

Littles Spiritual Desire Spirituality Strong Attitude Conscious Intention Divides

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.”

“When you have a thought that is not in alignment with your highest vision change to a new thought! Then and there. When you say a thing that is our of alignment with your grandest idea, make a note not to say something like that again. When you do a thing that is misaligned with your best intention, decide to make that the last time. And make it right with whomever was involved if you can.”

Ifs Ideas Lasts Change Vision Involved Highest Intention Notes Last Time New Thought Alignment Best Intentions

Author:Marlo Morgan

“Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.”

Humans Important Human Beings Compassion Intention

Author:Timothy Miller

“It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.”

Real Difficult Friendship Enemy Worst Intention Real Friends Mischief Friends And Enemies Friend Enemy

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.”

Character Lasts Worst Judging Intention Noble Judged Best Intentions

Author:Michael Josephson

“No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.”

Character Values Born Moral Intention Determined Noble Traits Rhetoric Good Intentions Lofty Good Character Moral Values Hereditary Adherence

Author:Michael Josephson

“The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.”

“The intention makes the crime.”

Crime Identity Integrity Intention Hypocrisy

Author:Aristotle

“Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.”

Life Motivational Today Intention Deeds Translate Good Intentions

Author:Grenville Kleiser

“We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that thing happens to be the will, the determination, and the resolve of people everywhere that nations will never again clash on the battlefield.”

People Ifs War Happens Science Courses Nations Determination Intention Things Happen Resolve Clash Battlefields Misguided

Author:Leslie Groves

“The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.”

Should Persons Art War Artist Practice Art Is Should Have Intention Samurai

Book:Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.”

Should Long War Dies House Born Intention Warrior Piety

Author:Kato Kiyomasa

“The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.”

Done Prayer Lord Millions Thirds Intention Petitions Answers To Prayer Answered Prayers Prayers Not Being Answered

Author:Aldous Huxley

“When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.”

People Life Self Shows Motivational Return Habit Lucky Harmony Luck Intention Slips Old Self

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Francesco Damiani punches with all the violence and bad intentions of Mahatma Gandhi.”

Violence Intention Bad Intentions

Author:Jerry Izenberg

“Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.”

Source: The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays

“We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users.”

Intention Throat Users Microsoft Shipping

Author:Paul Maritz

“If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.”

Ifs Country Justice Effects Racism Social Justice Intention Genocide

Author:John Howard Griffin

“The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.”

Littles Dream Success Realizing Steps Path Greater Focus Keys Victory Intention Significance Congratulations Just A Dream Dreams You Have Small Dreams Small Steps Dreaming And Success

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.”

Ifs Giving Success Purpose Focus Achievement Determination Fundamentals Intention Perseverance Obstacles

Author:Ralph Marston

“Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the means by which Russians and Americans can come to understand each others' aspirations for peace and how the satisfactions of everyday life may be achieved.”

May Mean Nations Degrees Behavior Intention Everyday Satisfaction Educational Aspiration Everyday Life Objectivity

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Trust is the confidence among team members that their peers' intentions are good, and that there is no reason to be protective or careful around the group. In essence, teammates are not comfortable being vulnerable with one another.”

Reason Used Groups Team Members Intention Careful Vulnerable Vulnerability No Reason Teamwork Peers Teammate Protective Team Member

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best”

Facts Sports Football Intention Soccer Motivational Sports

Author:Cristiano Ronaldo

“Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.”

Ifs War Ends Peace President Century Intention Motive Anti War Antiwar Nineteenth Century Misled Going To War

Book:Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

Source: Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

“I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .”

Knows Long Together Differences Ambition Long Time Intention Sake Improvement Making A Difference Just Being Colleagues

Author:Kevin Rudd

“Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.”

Years Book Certain Emotion Intention Tides New Year Incidents Happy New Year Inauguration Exhilaration Swelling Exodus

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“People with good intentions never give up!”

People Giving Giving Up Intention Not Giving Up Never Giving Up Good Intentions

Book:Duplicate Keys

Source: Duplicate Keys

“The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!”

World War States Intention Absurd War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Assertion World War 2 World War 1 World War Two Coerce

Book:Hitler's Words

Source: Hitler's Words

“Flirtation: attention without intention.”

Attention Men And Women Intention Journalism Flirting Flirty Flirtation

Author:Max O'Rell

“The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.”

Mind Long Quality Intention Quantity Best Intentions Quality Not Quantity

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world.”

Ifs World Mind Reality Life Is Left Acting Conditions Self Help Possibility Intention Attraction Limitation Manifest Power Of Intention

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.”

Country Felt Causes Pleasure Effects Drink Consequence Wine Intention Drinking Alcohol Accepted Drunk France Other Countries Spinning Drunkenness

Author:Roland Barthes

“No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage.”

Wells Matter Too Much Emotional Intention Sabotage Acts Of Love

Author:Judith Orloff

“The intention behind our giving and receiving is the most important thing. When the act of giving is joyful, when it is unconditional and from the heart, then the energy behind the giving increases many times over. But if we give grudgingly, there is no energy behind that giving. If we feel we have lost something through the act of giving, then the gift is not truly given and will not cause increase.”

Ifs Giving Feels Heart Important Energy Lost Given Causes Behinds Increase Important Things Intention Receiving Joyful Unconditional Giving In Giving And Receiving No Energy

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.”

People Matter Action Easy Natural Worst Judging Higher Standards Intention Inclination Good Intentions Higher Standards

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.”

People Inspirational Giving Feels Spirit Found Greatness Evidence Connections Intention Connected Appeals Empowering Celebration Proximity

Author:Wayne Dyer

“I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!”

Facts Lasts Dying Intention Positivity

Author:Milton H. Erickson

“Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.”

People Heart May Doe Hard Action Remember Inspiring Judging Gold Intention Thoughtful Eggs Loving Life Thoughts On Life Best Intentions Heart Of Gold Boiled Eggs

Author:Maya Angelou

“I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.”

May Hours History Fortune Intention Accommodate

Book:All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne

Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne

“Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.”

Action Choices Born Decision Hard Work Intention Decisions We Make

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Our aspirations are our possibilities.”

Want Dream Wish Possibility Intention Aspiration Soulmate Express Yourself Infinite Possibilities Power Of Intention Realm Of Possibility

Author:Samuel Johnson

“What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.”

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